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Westinghouse, Nordion, and PSEG team up to produce Co‑60 in the United States
This past January, Westinghouse Electric Company, Nordion, and PSEG Nuclear formalized agreements to implement newly developed cobalt-60 production technology at Units 1 and 2 of PSEG’s Salem nuclear power plant in New Jersey, with the Co-60 to be supplied to Nordion. Through an ongoing joint initiative, the companies aim to harness U.S. pressurized water reactors to produce a key medical isotope and build the first commercial-scale Co-60 production platform in the United States.
G. Samba
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 92 | Number 2 | February 1986 | Pages 197-203
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE86-A18166
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It is often desirable to solve the two-dimensional multigroup transport equation for (r-z) geometries directly given by hydrodynamic calculations. Usually, only Monte Carlo codes can compute α or k eigenvalues on such geometries. Most deterministic codes use an orthogonal mesh or restrict the mesh to a regular triangular grid. Other methods were developed at Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique and Los Alamos National Laboratory but do not solve the problem of sliding between two Lagrangian blocks. Thus, a production code has been developed that solves these problems and is able to obtain α or k eigenvalues with a good degree of accuracy for such geometries.